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Off-Duty Officer Employment Restrictions

Prohibited Types of Off-Duty Employment

Lynchburg Police Department Officer's are prohibited from accepting or engaging in any off-duty employment that constitutes a threat to the status or dignity of the police as a professional occupation, which includes:

Establishments which possess a Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Commission license to sell alcoholic beverages for consumption on premises, excluding:
- Banquet licenses
- Businesses having a contract with the City where off-duty officers are required to be employed.

Any gambling establishments not exempted by law

Any employment where the nature of the work, rules of the business or instructions from the employer require the employee to:
- Compromise their position as a law enforcement officer, or
- Do anything contrary to department policies, procedures, or ethical law enforcement practices.

To act as private investigators or in any off-duty capacity in which:
- The primary purpose of such employment is to gather information for a civil action
- Such employment is for the purpose of appearing as a witness in a civil action.

By a business intending to use the employees as temporary replacements for regular employees on strike
- An employee may be employed if the purpose of such employment is the protection of the business property in a law enforcement capacity.
- This is not intended to restrict those employees already employed in a business from working if that business becomes involved in a labor dispute.

That presents a potential conflict of interest between their duties as employees of the police department and their duties for the secondary employer.